barbed meaning

Adjective: barbed  baa(r)bd

1. Capable of wounding
   "a barbed compliment"
   - biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious 
2. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
   - barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny

Verb: barb  baa(r)b

1. Provide with barbs
   "barbed wire"

See also: armed, sarcastic

Type of: alter, change, modify

Encyclopedia: Barb Barb, Ontario

[Architecture]

Said of a shank (e.g., that of a nail) which has been provided with repetitive ridges or indentations which may be shallow or deep, oblique or crosswise, diagonal or perpendicular.

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1. the prisoners cut their way through the barbed wire and escaped.
2. peaceful circulation has been interrupted by barbed wire and concrete blocks.
3. two or more layers of fabric are combined by pushing barbed needles through them.
4. there was a girl found strangled with a piece of barbed wire at wandsworth last week.
5. past the circle, a high chain-link fence, topped with barbed wire, protects the premises.